Photo Essay: Sabastiya remembers 65 years of the Nakba

In community remembrance of the Nakba, Sabastiya villagers observed 15 minutes of a full lights-out.

In community remembrance of the Nakbah, Sabastiya villagers observed 15-minutes of a full light-out. Instead, villagers gathered in the village center, a municipal park area, to remember Palestinian displacement from 1948 Palestinian villages. [Photo by Ahmad Kayed]

Villagers sang Palestinian songs together in a show of community and collective continued remembrance of the devastation and displacement caused by the Nakba and the effects of the Nakba, 65 years later. [Photo by Ahmad Kayed]

Villagers gathered in the village center, a municipal park area, to remember Palestinian displacement from 1948 Palestinian villages. Candles were lit as people gathered to remember the Nakba together. [Photo by Ahmad Kayed]